The Counselor Staff of Summer 2014!

Nothing impacts and shapes a summer at camp more than the Counselor Staff, and our staff for 2014 is ripped and roaring and raring to go.

We've got 23 counselors coming in this summer, and all 11 cabins are going to be open all season long. We've got returning counselors who've worked here before, counselors who've been campers, counselors who've been CITs and Volunteers, counselors brand new to camp, counselors from all over the country and counselors from all over the world. The one thing they've got in common is they can't wait to spend a summer in the woods at L.G. Cook.

Every year, on the first day of staff training a group of strangers gather in the Dining Hall, nervously sitting around a big conference table waiting for training to begin. They're anxious about how this summer will turn out, anxious about this new strange home in the woods they'll be inhabiting, anxious about exactly what they've gotten themselves into and anxious about who in the world all these other people are.
 
A couple hours later, they're a bit more comfortable, they're getting to know each other, find out what they have in common, and discover what the summer holds ahead for them as a group and as a team. 

A couple days later, they're friends.

A couple weeks later, they're family.

By the end of the summer they will become an indispensable part of each others lives and each others histories, because each of them will be forever changed because at some point they made the crazy decision to come spend a summer at camp. And it all begins with a bunch of nervous strangers in a big ol' building in the woods. 

Over the next few weeks, I'll be posting interviews with some of this summer's counselors to give you the chance to get to know them even before they get to know each other, morph into a counselor staff and shape the experience of  every camper who comes to L.G. Cook during the Summer of 2014.

The Staff of Summer 2013. We won't know what this summer's group of goofballs are going to look like yet until they get here, put on their staff shirts, and live together in the woods for a couple months...